Alexander Pope Born: May 21‚ 1688‚ London Died: May 30‚ 1744‚ Twickenham Books: The Rape of the Lock‚ An Essay on Criticism‚ Eloisa to Abelard‚ Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot‚ Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady‚ Alexander Pope‚ Scriblerus‚ Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope‚ The Odyssey Of Homer Libretti: Acis and Galatea Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet‚ best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer
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Explain why Pope Urban II called the First Crusade Pope Urban II called the first crusade because the Muslims were attacking Christians and Christian property. Pope Urban II saw the Muslims as enemies to God as they were attacking Christian churches in Jerusalem which were holy to Christians. The Muslims were also brutally attacking Christians. This angered the Pope so he therefore felt it was necessary to fight for Christians in the West to defend Christendom in the name of Christ. The Pope now wanted
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Explain why Pope Urban II called for a Crusade in Clermont 1095. One reason‚ or trigger for Pope Urban calling the crusade would have been Alexius’ request for his help. Alexius asked for Pope Urban’s aid in helping him to fight the Turks; this is because they were closing in and starting to invade Constantinople‚ which was the main frontier between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Emperor Alexius felt threatened by the Turks‚ and knew that Pope Urban in him being the head of the Church (the
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In the article “Breaking Rules: The Consequences of Self-Narration” the autobiographical scholar Paul John Eakin explores the significance of autobiography on human perspectives of identity. Eakin argues three main rules (113-114) which prove an explicable relation between one narrative and oneself‚ maintained in the face of societal consequences and condemnation (114). This summary will be organized based on these three main rules (Eakin 113-114) establishing and exploring them through Eakin’s given
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jessie Pope was a journalist who wrote recruitment poems for the Daily Mail during the First World War. The poems she did write were positive propaganda poems for the war; her objective was to stimulate patriotism in the readers so that the men would join the forces. Pope wrote a persuasive poem where she compared war to a game. This is illustrated in the title ’Who’s for the game?’ It shows that her attitude to war was that it was a great big event that everyone should take part in one way or another
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PLUNGING WITH THE POPE Characters The Pope - an ancient but by no means feeble man. It is vital that this actor has a flair for comedy and good comedic timing The Camerlengo - Much younger (late twenties‚ early thirties)‚ somewhat naiive The Pope’s private office. There is a desk and a table. He and the camerlengo are decorating the place for Christmas. There is tinsel and a nativity scene. Perhaps Christmas music The camerlengo steps forward and begins speaking to the audience
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Game? By Jessie Pope War is a highly debatable topic that has influenced many poets. An issue that is important in Jessie Pope’s 1914 poem Who’s for the game? This essay will explore a range of literary devices used within the poem to help analyse the explicit and implicit meanings. Furthermore‚ it will use appropriate literacy terminology to back up quotes within the poem. Additionally‚ this essay will analyse the structure of the poem to show how meaning is conveyed. Pope‚ a naive poet‚ speaks
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Pope Leo the great (440-461 AD) is famous for his Tome of Leo document‚ The Council of Chalcedon‚ and he illuminated the conformist definition of Jesus’ being as the religious states of two beings- divine and human. Despite all of this‚ Pope Leo the Great is most famous for his persuasion of the crude Attila the Hun (434-453 AD) to not invade Italy in 452 AD. The emperors usually paid off barbaric tribes to not invade them but this further gave reason for the tribes to invade Western Europe. The
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POPE AS A SATIRIST Satire is a literary genre‚ usually meant to be funny. The word ‘Satire’ was defined by Richard Garnett as‚ The expression in adequate terms of the sense of amusement or disgust excited by the ridiculous or unseemly‚ provided the humour is a distinctly recognized element and the utterance is inverted with literary form. Without humour satire is invective‚ without literary form‚ it is mere clownish jeering. (Encyclopedia Britannica 14th ed. vol. 20 p. 5) Satire is defined by Long
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agency‚ where it fails to account for the rationality of man’s behaviour in each of their conscious decisions (VS 67). St. John Paul II in Veritatis Splendor‚ explains that man’s actions cannot be determined solely from the fundamental option because it outlines human freedom as an intention to perform an action without abiding by humanity’s moral obligations (VS 67). St. John Paul II further ascertains that true morality considers whether or not the behaviour performed conforms to the integrity of humanity’s
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